• SMB Nation
    SMB Nation The SMB Nation tribe exceeds 45,000 followers worldwide. Everything SMB Nation produces reflects our unshakable positive belief in the power of information to spur a profitable global community.
  • SMB Nation Delivers
    SMB Nation Delivers SMB Nation delivers complete business solutions to help consultants and resellers better manage their business, technological, and marketing needs. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person.
  • Success Starts Here
    Success Starts Here SMB Nation is a publishing and events company, targeted at the small and medium business (SMB) channel partner/reseller/consulting/VAR community.
  • Don't Be Anonymous
    Don't Be Anonymous SMB Nation conferences, seminars and workshops bring forward-thinking IT consultants, technologies and vendor sponsors together, sparking new opportunities in the SMB space.
  • SMB Nation Tribe
    SMB Nation Tribe The SMB Nation tribe exceeds 45,000 followers worldwide. Everything SMB Nation produces reflects our unshakable positive belief in the power of information to spur a profitable global community.
facebook 32 twitter 32 rss 32  

Partner Spotlight

From crushed cameras to virtualized servers – you can save your customers’ data! 

With more data being stored than ever before, it’s only a matter of time before data loss affects one of your customers. Have a solution for them in your toolbox by partnering with the world leader in data recovery to offer superior recovery services for any type of media –No contracts, no minimum quota and no cost to become a partner

The Ontrack® Data Recovery Certified Partner Program is designed to provide service partners with an additional portfolio offering so they are better able to meet customer demand and generate a new revenue stream.

Find out more or sign up today provide a broader range of services, differentiate your business from the competition and receive commissions or discounts on customer jobs.

Please continue to scroll down for today's latest news!

 

N-able CEO Gavin Garbutt Talks Acquisition, Retirement, Future Plans
News
Earlier this week, we broke the news that N-able announced its intent to be acquired by SolarWinds for $120 million in cool cash by the end of the month. The news item also noted that N-able’s CEO, Gavin Garbutt, will be retiring, and JP Jauvin, the company’s GM will take the reins once Garbutt hangs his hat for the last time at N-able’s Ottawa, Canada, headquarters.
Read more...
Spring Banner
SMB Nation Spring Session Recordings Released
Featured
SMB Nation is pleased to announce that we have released a few session recordings from our 7th Annual Spring Conference and SMB 150 Awards Gala for public viewing! Sessions include:
Read more...
Microsoft Announces (and Congratulates) its US Partners of the Year
News
Microsoft today drew our attention to a blog post highlighting its US Partners of the Year, who will be recognized and awarded for their accomplishments in July at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston. 
Read more...
HarryB Headshot
Webinar staring in two hours! Disasters Happen: Ensure You Have Recovery Options at Your Fingertips
Featured
Date: Thursday, May 23, 2013 Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT Presented by: Steven Snyder, Technical Marketing Manager, StorageCraft and Harry Brelsford, Founder and Chairman, SMB Nation, Inc. Minimizing the impact of downtime for your clients’ businesses is critical. We all know disaster recovery preparations can appear to be costly and time consuming. With the StorageCraft® Recover-Ability™ Solution, you can easily put a flexible disaster recovery solution in place for your clients. And, most importantly, this solution gets your clients back up and running within minutes, not days. Plus, it ...
Read more...
Cisco OnPlus: Beta to Burial to Cloud!
News
What a long, strange trip it’s been. We helped Cisco develop “Thunderbolt,” which later became the basis for the OnPlus product. OnPlus is/was (more on that in a moment) a remote network management tool to remotely monitor, manage and maintain small business networks. Think of it was an RMM with MMM!
Read more...
BrightGauge 3.0 to Offer Advanced Analytics, Aggregated Data Reporting
Technology News
BrightGauge Software said that it has released BrightGauge 3.0, the company’s latest update to its web-based business analytics and customer-reporting platform for MSPs. The new release provides enhanced customization of data metrics and more robust reporting features that now enable MSPs to measure and visualize their own business performance across their entire client base.
Read more...
Dell Logo
Dell to Enable Hyper-V, Windows Server 2012 Support for OpenStack
News
Dell said that it will now enable Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V as a viable hypervisor choice for the OpenStack cloud platform. This development, which is the first instance of a technology vendor enabling Windows Server Hyper-V hypervisor on OpenStack for private clouds, will give customers additional flexibility and choice to run OpenStack workloads within their existing Windows Server environments.
Read more...
Product Review: Lenovo’s ThinkPad Helix…our First Impressions
Technology News
Late last month, I attended Lenovo’s Accelerate Partner Conference in Las Vegas, and I had the opportunity to chat with Ashley Rodrigue, Lenovo Ambassador, Lenovo Customer Care. Ashley spent time speaking with me regarding the company’s new ThinkPad Helix, which was launched at the event last month. So what were my first impressions of the product?: Lenovo knocks it out of the park with the ThinkPad Helix. It has everything you need to live in a digital world. The Helix is portable, flexible, user friendly and has a great batter life with Lenovo's attention to building a stable and robust prod...
Read more...